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COMMUNICATIONS WORKERS OF AMERICA

DC · US

Tracked direct giving

$1,375,000

LDA reported lobbying spend

$3,685,000

Connections

2

The Money Trail

How money flowed from COMMUNICATIONS WORKERS OF AMERICA

$1.4M
5 transactions across 1 counterparty
sum of 5 tracked donations shown

COMMUNICATIONS WORKERS OF AMERICA directed $1.4M to WAY TO LEAD PAC across 5 contributions between September 2024 and December 2024.

Sep 2024 – Dec 2024corporate
$1.4M tracked across 1 counterparty (sum of 5 tracked donations shown)
PAC Chain Attribution

Where COMMUNICATIONS WORKERS OF AMERICA’s money ended up

Attributed amounts are modeled estimates of how money flowed through intermediary PACs, computed by proportional apportionment of FEC-reported transactions. They are not reported transactions themselves. How we compute this

$12K
modeled estimate
6 paths across 5 counterparties
$9Kmodeled estimateattributed to Kamala Harris
2024 cycle2 paths2 hopsMedium confidence

smallest single documented leg $42K (larger than the modeled estimate: the leg carried money from other sources too)

smallest single documented leg $50K (larger than the modeled estimate: the leg carried money from other sources too)

$2Kmodeled estimateattributed to Susan Copius Altman
2024 cycle1 path2 hopsMedium confidence
$2Kmodeled estimateCOMMUNICATIONS WORKERS OF AMERICA→WAY TO LEAD PAC→WORKING FAMILIES PARTY PAC→Susan Copius AltmanmediumSupportindependent_expenditure

smallest single documented leg $48K (larger than the modeled estimate: the leg carried money from other sources too)

$562modeled estimateattributed to ALSOBROOKS FOR SENATE
2024 cycle1 path1 hopMedium confidence

smallest single documented leg $5K (larger than the modeled estimate: the leg carried money from other sources too)

$478modeled estimateattributed to Bob Casey
2024 cycle1 path2 hopsMedium confidence
$478modeled estimateCOMMUNICATIONS WORKERS OF AMERICA→WAY TO LEAD PAC→WORKING FAMILIES PARTY PAC→Bob CaseymediumSupportindependent_expenditure

smallest single documented leg $50K (larger than the modeled estimate: the leg carried money from other sources too)

$174modeled estimateattributed to Colin Z. Allred
2024 cycle1 path2 hopsMedium confidence

smallest single documented leg $50K (larger than the modeled estimate: the leg carried money from other sources too)

$12K attributed (modeled estimate) across 6 paths·Up to 2 hops deep·Source FEC filings (Schedules A, B, E)·How we compute this

Lobbying Activity Detail

Disclosed lobbying expenditures from LDA filings where this entity is the client. Dollar amounts represent what was reported to the Senate Office of Public Records.

Top Lobbying Issues

LBRLabor/Employment
$6.0M
AVIAviation
$6.0M
TAXTaxation/Internal Revenue Code
$6.0M
BANBAN
$6.0M
TECScience/Technology
$5.4M
GOVGovernment Issues
$5.2M
INTIntelligence
$4.7M
TRDTrade
$4.7M
MANManufacturing
$3.9M
BUDBudget/Appropriations
$3.8M

Lobbying Firms Retained

In-house lobbyists (filed as its own registrant)$6.0M
I STREET ADVOCATES$140K
A LEARNED HAND, LLC$20K

Lobbying data from Senate LDA filings and the LobbyView dataset (MIT/NSF, CC-BY-4.0). Dollar figures represent disclosed expenditures only and may not capture all influence activity. Issue codes follow the LDA general issue classification.

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Donations Given and Outside Spending

Largest 50 records. Rows badged “Spent to support” or “Spent to oppose” are independent expenditures this entity paid to vendors for or against the named candidate. That money was not given to them.

RecipientAmountDateCycle
WAY TO LEAD PAC$400,000Sep 10, 20242024
WAY TO LEAD PAC$400,000Sep 4, 20242024
WAY TO LEAD PAC$300,000Oct 11, 20242024
WAY TO LEAD PAC$250,000Oct 11, 20242024
WAY TO LEAD PAC$25,000Dec 2, 20242024

Relationships

TypeConnected ToDetailsSource
RetainedA LEARNED HAND, LLCHired A LEARNED HAND, LLC to lobby (1st Quarter (Jan 1 - Mar 31) 2025)Source
RetainedI STREET ADVOCATESHired I STREET ADVOCATES to lobby (1st Quarter (Jan 1 - Mar 31) 2023)Source